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Big Cable and Mobile Are Ready to Rumble

Technology is about to upend Washington’s dire prescriptions for a broadband monopoly.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Updated Oct. 8, 2016 8:18 a.m. ET

Either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be president next year, but good things will also happen in 2017. At a Goldman Sachs telecom conference two weeks ago, Comcast chief Brian Roberts announced his company will launch next year a Comcast-branded mobile phone service. Yippee. The long awaited coalescence, or collision, of the fixed and wireless broadband industries is finally arriving—great news for consumers.

This clash was always inevitable but was put on the fight card by the parties themselves in 2011, when...